Patti Boulaye showcases her one-woman jazz show featuring the music of Billie Holiday – It IS DEFINITELY the real Patti!
The award-winning singer and musical theatre star Patti Boulaye brings to the Millgate Arts Centre, her wonderful, moving one-woman show ‘Billie and Me,’ in which she discusses the parallels of her life and career with that of the great singer Billie Holiday. It’s the REAL Patti Boulaye!!
Holiday’s life, songs and cause of her death, have made a strong impact on modern day performers like Patti and it was many of Holiday’s songs and performances that inspired Patti’s love of jazz music.
In ‘Billie & Me’, Patti performs some of her favourite and well -known Holiday’s songs such as That Ole Devil Called Love, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Lover Man, God Bless the Child and many more…
PATTI BOULAYE OBE
Patti recently published her remarkable and moving autobiography ‘The Faith of A Child’ which charts her riveting life story through wealth, poverty and civil war, to show-business stardom and success in Britain and her birth country Nigeria. 2018 marked the 47th Anniversary of Patti’s West End debut in the musical ‘Hair’. The show changed the course of Patti’s life, when at the age of 17 she joined the cast after arriving in London from Nigeria in the early 70’s.
Michael, Saddleworth Live told Saddleworth News and Life: “She started in show business by getting into the wrong queue for Madam Tussauds – it was the queue for auditions for HAIR, the musical! She got the part!
“We just think it’s amazing she is coming to Saddleworth! People think it must be a tribute act – not the real Patti!! – It IS DEFINITELY the real Patti! ”
Patti, who came to prominence as a singer winning the British ITV talent show New Faces where she made history by becoming the only contestant ever to receive the maximum 120 points, was awarded an OBE for her charity work in the UK and Sub- Saharan Africa in 2016.
It’s virtually sold out but you may be lucky :
Sun 29 April 2018, 7.30pm
Patti Boulaye: Billie & Me
Tickets £15 www.saddleworthlive.com
Author: Jude Gidney - Editor
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